Launch Schedule

LP-101, Wenchang Satellite Launch Center
China

Multipurpose X-band radar earth observation satellite, launching alongside an unconfirmed complement of secondary payloads.

Dec 15

DEC 23

02:00 PM

Obzor-R no. 01 & Others

Soyuz-2

Roscosmos

TBD, Plesetsk Cosmodrome
Russia

Earth Observation Satellite

Block 2 BlueBirds will deliver up to 10 times the bandwidth capacity of the BlueBird satellites in orbit today. Featuring up to 2,400 square foot communications arrays, they...

Dec 15

DEC 24

02:50 AM

BlueBird 6 (BlueBird Block 2 FM1)

LVM-3

ISRO

SLP, Satish Dhawan Space Centre
India

Series: AST SpaceMobile

Dec 16

DEC 25

10:00 PM

TBD

Long March 8A

Launch vehicle also unconfirmed.

LC-1, Wenchang Satellite Launch Center
China

Dec 15

DEC 26

Fengyun-4C

Long March 3B

Launching an Earth observation satellite for the Italian Space Agency (ASI). The satellite will operate in a circular sun-synchronous dawn-dusk orbit with a nominal altitude of...

LC-2, Xichang Satellite Launch Center
China

Meteorology Satellite

Dec 13

DEC 28

02:09 AM

CSG-3

Falcon 9

SpaceX

SLC-4E, Vandenberg SFB
California, United States

B1081

Dec 17

DEC 28

05:00 AM

Starlink (6-88)

Falcon 9

SpaceX

SLC-40, Cape Canaveral SFS
Florida, United States

B1101

Droneship Landing

Series: SpaceX Starlink

Dec 18

DEC 28

01:18 PM

AIST-2T no. 01 & no. 02 and Others

Soyuz-2

Roscosmos

Site 1S, Vostochny Cosmodrome
Russia

A constellation of two Earth observation satellites able to deliver stereoscopic imaging that allows for the creation of 3D models. Additional payload will include: Aist-ST,...

Earth Observation Satellite

Dec 13

DEC 31

04:15 AM

EOS-N1

PSLV

ISRO

FLP, Satish Dhawan Space Centre
India

— with: KID & Others

This is a rideshare mission. The primary satellite, EOS-N1 (codenamed Anvesha), is a hyperspectral imaging satellite developed largely for the DRDO (Defence Research and...

Earth Observation Satellite

Dec 14

Long March 12A Demo Flight

Long March 12A

First launch of the Long March 12A, which is the partially reusable variant of the Long March 12. The booster will attempt a landing at a pad roughly 300km downrange of Jiuquan...

TBD, Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center
China

Vehicle Debut

Dec 15

Kinetica-2 Demo Flight

Kinetica-2

CAS Space

LS-43/140, Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center
China

Expendable

Vehicle Debut

Nov 30

Launch vehicle also unconfirmed

TBD

Hyperbola-1

i-Space

LS-95A, Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center
China

Dec 13

This mission carries a verification satellite for South Korea’s new government-backed microsatellite constellation, flying from Rocket Lab’s launch site on the Māhia Peninsula...

"Bridging the Swarm"

Electron

Rocket Lab

LC-1A, Rocket Lab Launch Complex, Mahia Peninsula
New Zealand

Dec 16

First launch of the Ceres-2, an upgraded version of the Ceres-1 with increased payload capacity.

Ceres-2 Demo Flight

Ceres-2

Galactic Energy

LS-95A, Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center
China

Vehicle Debut

Dec 15